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Reclaiming Communist Philosophy
Marx, Lenin, Mao, and the Dialectics of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is unique in its utilization of the natural sciences to explain and illustrate key concepts of communist philosophy. In its recapitulation of the spirit of Engels’s unfinished manuscript, The Dialectics of Nature, it relies on the physical sciences developed since Engels’s time to reaffirm...
Beyond Retention
Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education, Brenda Marina and Sabrina N. Ross address the continued underrepresentation of women faculty of color at predominantly White colleges and universities through a creative convergence...
Prairie Power
Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
originally published by University of Missouri (May 2004) Prairie Power is a superb collection of oral histories from the 1960s focused on former student radicals at the University of Missouri, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. Robbie Lieberman presents a view of Midwestern...
Love, Justice, and Education
John Dewey and the Utopians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Love, Justice, and Education by William H. Schubert brings to life key ideas in the work of John Dewey and their relevance for the world today. He does this by imagining continuation of a highly evocative article that Dewey published in the New York Times in 1933. Dewey wrote from the posture of having...
Pathways to Transformation
Learning in Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledgebase. This book is timely and significant as it provides a synthesis of some of the most exciting research in two fields: adult...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs). At the center of educational turns is the role of school professionals in this Common Core Standards era. Teacher education programs and professional development,...
Language and Mathematics Education
Multiple Perspectives and Directions for Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Issues of language in mathematics learning and teaching are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. Addressing issues of language is crucial for improving mathematics learning and teaching for students who are bilingual, multilingual, or learning English. These issues are also relevant...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This relative lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching, learning...
Structural Equation Modeling
A Second Course (2nd ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Educational Statisticians This volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller’s highlysuccessful 2006 volume, with all of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters. The second edition, like...
World Language Teacher Education
Transitions and Challenges in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers. This volume is an effort to share the contributors’ knowledge, experience and ideas with colleagues, particularly with novice language teacher educators. The suggestions in the chapters...
Partnering for Progress
Boston University, the Chelsea Public Schools, and Twenty Years of Urban Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
For decades, education researchers have understood that school/university partnerships can be beneficial for education reform. K12 institutions derive benefits from working with professors and university students, and higher education institutions use local schools as sites for teacher training and...
Language Matters
Reflections on Educational Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not...
The Education of the Hispanic Population
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This volume brings together the latest research and scholarship on Latinos in the United States. This book is special in terms of the broad scope of topics covered and methodologies employed in pursuit of knowledge about Latino students. This collection is also unique in that it features the work of...
Critical Mathematics Education
Theory, Praxis and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Mathematics is traditionally seen as the most neutral of disciplines, the furthest removed from the arguments and controversy of politics and social life. However, critical mathematics challenges these assumptions and actively attacks the idea that mathematics is pure, objective, and value?neutral....